Hot topics in November

Kosmos

Culture, travel, fashion and culinary delights: the Kosmos pages of Lufthansa Magazin bring you interesting and useful tidbits from around the world

North America

Playing out a point

Hip-hop musician and actor Donald Glover, aka Childish Gambino, is one of the new voices of America: The ferocious video for his latest song, “This is America,” has been viewed more than 235 million times so far. Glover heads out on a tour of the United States and Canada in September.

Solar slug

He’s only five millimeters long and resembles a cartoon lamb, but costasiella kurshimae (leaf sheep) is smart. One of the few creatures capable of photosynthesis, it grazes on algae, for example, off the coast of Japan.